“Flynn was kissing her again, not to help her forget but to force her to remember. Everything he had meant to her then. Everything he meant to her now. How he always had been, and forever would be, ...”

“Youre going to need more than an average kissing game to get with me, Cross.Nothin average about that kiss.She sighed. Dont beg. Its so unTexan.”

“Wars fought over a face like this, he murmured like he was talking to himself, my heart stopped beating and his thumbs moved lightly across my cheeks. A man would work himself into the ground for i...”

“Okay, first of all, I didnt sleep with you to make amends. I slept with you because I wanted to.He still didnt say anything, and she pointed at him again. And you know what? It was your own damn fa...”

“And I wake up happy, baby, because I possess beauty and I own that beauty in all the forms it can take and the least important of those are physical.”

“This pride of yours, its admirable as all get-out, but there has to come a point in your life where you admit you need a hand. Pain might be necessary, but suffering is optional. Are you going to l...”

“Gripping her wrists, he pinned her tight to the vanity. That sex as a weapon thing can only get you so far, Tess.Wanna bet? Im not damaged, cowboy. I dont have hang-ups about my body, I dont use se...”

“Ive done things Im not proud of and Im trying really hard to make up for those things by being a decent guy. And decent guys dont act the way Ive been acting around you, so Im going to stop.”